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PC fined £1.25m after refurb damage exposed residents to CO poisoning risk

Safe systems of work

Willmott Dixon arm fined £1.25m after refurb exposed residents to CO poisoning risk

Culture

IOSH 2018 conference blog: Day 2

Work at height

Dessert maker fined £50k for employee’s fragile ceiling fall injuries

News continued

Safe systems of work

Costain and Galliford Try hit for £2.8m after worker loses toes in sewage plant incident

Two construction firms have been fined £1.4m apiece after an agency worker, who had expressed concern about low staffing, was injured when his foot was drawn into a rotating screw conveyor.

Confined spaces

Yorkshire Water Services fined £733k for fitter’s fatal burns

The operator of a brewery trade waste plant, must pay £733,000 after a catalogue of system failures left a fitter carrying out hot work in an oxygen-enriched confined space.

Leadership

IOSH 2018 conference blog: Day 1

Discussions on day one of IOSH 2018 at Birmingham’s International Convention Centre ranged from the biggest to the smallest safety and health concerns, with most of the year’s major topics aired in between.

Features

Learning-from-health-psychologists-behavioural-change

Skills

Behaviour change

Learning from: health psychologists

Fire

Fire risk assessment

Plant protection

Lone workers

Gas detection

Lone worker Special: The detection connection

Features continued

Lone workers

Alarms and comms

Lone worker Special: Going equipped

From simple local alarms to body-worn video, lone worker systems now offer a variety of ways to signal for help in a crisis.

Lone workers

Training

Lone worker Special: Field studies

With more people working alone than ever, training has to keep pace if staff are to manage new and more complex risk.

Lone workers

Mental health and wellbeing

Lone worker Special: Lone but not alone

Reduced contact with remote and lone workers makes supporting their wellbeing and spotting early symptoms of mental health problems harder.

Columns

Craig Foyle

On

how getting involved in your professional body can bring career benefits

Andrew Sharman CFIOSH

On

The One Minute Manager’s three tips to get the best from employees

Products and services

Skills

PPL Training launch IOSH Working Safely e-learning course

Management systems

Rexel first in their industry to achieve ISO 45001:2018

Skills

RRC at Health & Safety North

Products and services continued

Personal protective equipment

PPE regulation seminar at SATRA, 10th October, Northamptonshire

In March 2016, the European Commission published new Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) legislation as Regulation (EU) 2016/425. This replaces PPE Directive 89/686/EEC which has required all PPE placed on the European market since 30th June 1995 to be CE marked.

Inventor seeks global manufacturer to license castor wheel cover

This invention is an aftermarket, injection moulded, fitted and self-sealing castor wheel cover manufactured from clear or coloured Liquid Silicone Rubber (LSR), or Thermoplastic Elastomer (TPE), which makes the cleaning of equipment for use in high level hygiene environments more time efficient and sanitary.

Skills

Achieve the ‘Gold Standard’ in health and safety

What’s next for your health and safety career? Have you got the edge to be a leader in your field and get that senior position in health and safety management? Get one step closer with the NEBOSH National Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety.